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"mother tongue”
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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The Poetry of Dennis Cooley / 35 mother tongue we learn to speak yearn to talk at our mother’s breast we learn to say something you coax us into take our first shaky steps into talk walk on air again & again try to speak our mother tongue tied so to speak inside this room tied to you we try & nurse you back to breath can hardly talk hardly say a thing dare not breathe a word ...